I think eggplant is worse than boiled cabbage, but that’s just my opinion. That red dress looks worse on you than the white one. Which is worse for your health, smoking or drinking?

Noun + verb + comparative adjective + than + noun. [3] X Research source Winter weather is worse than summer weather. One tricky use of worse is when 2 or more objects act as a group noun and you need to refer to them as a single object. The car is worse than the other 2 you showed me. In this example, the 2 things being compared are car and the other 2, which functions as one object. There are still 2 things being compared.

This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. I think my handwriting is worse [than it was before]. I am feeling worse [than I was before]

Bob and Fred are bad drivers, but I think Bob is worse [than Fred].

Unlike worse, you can’t use worst when only comparing 2 things. Dirty diapers smell worse than rotten milk, but week-old fish is the worst of all. Math is the worst of all my 5 classes.

Use worse whenever you would use a -er word. The -er is the comparative. The weather in Boston is colder than it is in Miami. / The weather in Boston is worse than it is in Miami. Use worst whenever you would use a -est word. The -est is the superlative. Washington state has the wettest weather in the US. / Washington state has the worst rain in the US. The growing intensity scale of the word is: bad - worse - worst. Worst is the most bad and worse is more bad than bad. The weather in November is bad, but it’s worse in December. The worst weather all winter is in January.

I disagree. Eggplant and boiled cabbage are both vile, but squash is the worst! That is the worst cake I have ever tasted.

Chartreuse is the worst color [of all]. He’s the worst person imaginable [in the entire human population].

The reason people say worse case scenario is due to speaking patterns. In many common words, the -t is dropped; therefore, you hear worse case when the person actually means worst case. [6] X Research source

The idiom was first seen in 1596 as if the worst come to the worst. This meant that the worst case scenario happened. In 1719, Daniel Defoe wrote in Robinson Crusoe, “if the worse came to the worst. " This new use of the idiom meant that things are getting worse. [8] X Research source